Him being an edge-lord tool or an honest psychopath are completely indistinguishable in text form, and actually only one party, the edgelord, has any motive to lie.
Which is why you should practice carry and conceal, and hopefully never have to draw on it.
You can always just give the muggers everything, including your gun.
You can't barter back your (or your family's) life, and putting the massive asymmetry in the benefit of the doubt of a known assailant is maddeningly naive to a point of near literal cuckoldry.
This seems obvious but it is a constitutional right that has been cited as a reason to not comply with extra-judicial pressure to assist the government with an investigation.
This is why some projects do not accept donations and have a canary.
Had the authors of Truecrypt been paid, they could had been compelled to modify their source code to the government's will.
By not accepting payment, they are protecting themselves.
Familar higher orders of complexity emerge far easier within systems with more states.
Due to our physical laws elements with larger rooms for reaction via chemistry are familar.
The chances of a replicating agent just anthropologically emerging from the surface of a 2nd generation hydrogen dominant star with an accumulation disc composed of little higher orders elements is inconceivably less likely than the relative petri dish organic molecules provide.
If this is ever used again, you're correlated.